Carrier route record

OOAMA→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Amarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 282
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on AMA to DFW lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 282 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's AMA to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights

Avg delay

121 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.42%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.7%

Every carrier on AMA to DFW, 2,370 flights

These figures cover 282 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on AMA to DFW

SkyWest flew 282 of the 2,370 flights on AMA to DFW, about 12% of it. Its 82.7% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.0% to SkyWest at 82.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on AMA to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,970	85.0%	71 min	2.34%	A
American Airlinesthin sample	118	84.2%	182 min	3.39%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	282	82.7%	121 min	1.42%	B

Departure window

When SkyWest runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am155 flights89.5%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm32 flights65.6%
2pm–5pm69 flights77.6%
5pm–8pm26 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 65.6% on time against 89.5% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 155 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on AMA to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025100 flights77.3%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights87.7%
Apr–Jun 2026120 flights84.7%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.7% on time across 282 flights.

SkyWest on AMA to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.3%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 94 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 94.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.5%. 27 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 5,826 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,077 of the 5,826 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,826 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.5% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 1.42% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 312 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.7% on time across 283 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 282 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking SkyWest on AMA to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 282 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 82.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 277 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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